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Governmental bias in statistics

Incidence

In the USA in 1991, the government refused to correct errors in the 1990 census through which 5.3 million people were overlooked. Because such official statistics are used to apportion federal funding, this refusal cost large cities and states millions of dollars and could affect the makeup of political districts throughout the country.

Claim

There are lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Broader

Inadequate data

Bureaucratic bias

Biased government information

Narrower

Inadequacy of economic accounting systems

Aggravates

Statistical errors ^{[in 2 loops]}

Misuse of statistics ^{[in 5 loops]}

Statistical understatement ^{[in 2 loops]}

Inadequate social welfare services ^{[in 4 loops]}

Aggravated by

Disguised unemployment

Suppression of information concerning social problems

Strategy(ies)

Biasing statistics

Using bias

Value(s)

Bias

Type

(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems

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